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Fezziwig wrote:
When we drive long distances on the Federal Interstate highway system we are taking advantage of an opportunity provided by taxpayers in generations past. why not extend the same to EVs?

Not an even close comparison. A national highway system is one of those things a government should undertake. Picking technologies isn't.

Selling solar power wholesale to a utility that already has plenty of other sources is probably fruitless. Especially now with the reduced demand for electricity. I wonder how much of that reduced demand is from the subsidized CFL lamps?

A good example of government interference. They indirectly mandate CFLs and then decide they are a threat.

I look forward to the day when we are awash in our own oil...

We are.

OTOH avoiding the retail cost of purchasing the electricity has merit. OK I know solar installations are also subsidized. I might be wrong but I think most solar is being installed on homes and businesses to avoid the retail cost and less solar creating central electric power to sell to the utility for distribution.

Not sure I understand this statement, but I will say that Colorado utilities are now, by law, required to produce a percentage of their power from "renewable resources," no matter the cost, which is proving to be substantial. Government interference, here we go again.

Should we also eliminate the home mortgage subsidy? Not to go off topic but just to present one of many examples that has outlived the purpose IMO.

What we should do, IMO, is eliminate the current tax code completely and replace it with a simple system, perhaps the flat tax, although it has problems. I would like to see everyone pay something into the system, even those who at this point only take from it. Everyone, even the poor, should have skin in the game. Might avoid another disaster as happened earlier this month.